Google Googles: Mobile pics converted into web ads via product recognition
Google is running a test on its Google’s photo recognition tool, that will display adverts to users based on pictures taken by their smartphone cameras.
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Xmas e-tail: Shoppers exposed to malicious weblinks
More than half (55 per cent) of respondents say they plan to buy at least half of their gifts online this Christmas, but shoppers are still failing to check if they are making secure transactions via the web.
Half of Brits ‘would leave their mobile operator for a better handset’
Almost half of UK consumers (45%) would leave their current operator if they did not sell the handset they wanted, according to a new survey.
AVG teams with Google to boost anti-virus search
AVG Technologies has struck an agreement with Google to boost the search functionality of the firm’s anti-virus software.
Best Buy launches UK shop on Facebook
Best Buy has launched a Facebook shop for UK web users following on from the opening of its online store on November 4th.
YouTube boosts stickiness with search topic suggestions
YouTube is trialing a new service called ‘Topics on Search’, giving viewers examples of related searches.
The battle for your data: Facebook and Google in GMail contacts row
Rivalry between Google and Facebook is intensifying, with the world’s two biggest internet companies locking horns over the export of user’s contact data from GMail to Facebook, with Google even encouraging its users to file a complaint against the social network.
Ask ditches search for community answers
Ask.com is cutting 130 engineering jobs and outsourcing its search technology, as the internet icon finally concedes that it cannot compete with Google and Bing in the search market.
Google debuts ‘Instant Previews’ search tool
Google has launched a new tool that allows searchers to see previews of websites before clicking on them in the results page.
Google debuts 'Instant Previews' search tool
Google has launched a new tool that allows searchers to see previews of websites before clicking on them in the results page.